Dr Iuliana Matasova

Currently a displaced Ukrainian independent scholar

Dr Iuliana Matasova is a Ukrainian scholar of popular culture and comparative literature whose current research explores the Ukrainian 1990s through women’s popular music. Having served as Associate Professor of Literature at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she is currently a displaced independent researcher. Matasova was RHS and BASEES Scholar-at-Risk at the University of Roehampton London, Carnegie Research Fellow at Duke University, and Advanced Academia Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has given invited talks at the Universities of Minnesota, Oxford, Chicago, and Basel.

Her interdisciplinary scholarship of Ukrainian and American literatures and popular cultures appeared in Palgrave and Peter Lang collections of essays and in leading Ukrainian academic journals. She has written features for Marie Claire Ukraine, translated at Kyiv Molodist International Film Festival, and discussed her research on Ukrainian national television.